In Tim O’Brien’s “The Things They Carried” he describes a group of soldiers as they make there way through the War ravished Jungles of Vietnam. Each soldiers is described as carrying items, both tangible and intangible, as they march on there missions. The soldiers are carrying baggage that we all carry in our own lives, they are carrying equipment to make their lives easier, they are carrying emotional feelings that haunt them, and they are carrying personal possessions that remind them of home and the reasons they need to survive the ordeal they are in. Sometimes, just as these soldiers did, we carry more then we can bear.

Just as people carry equipment they need to survive everyday like a cell phone for work, or a laptop for a business, or even a wallet, with all personal information in it, the soldiers carried all the equipment they needed to survive in the war. They carried weapons such as

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